[ Yachiyo gets hauled back before she can even properly react, blinking before she whips her head back around to the front where the spider is angrily making stabbing gestures with its front two legs. ]

If we can pin it down, it should be simple enough to finish off. Do you think you can hold its attention for a minute?

[ A bit of green saliva shimmers off the end of one fang, and Yachiyo amends-- ]

Without getting bitten.